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Liam Fox jet fighter error costs UK millions
Sunday 18 March 2012
David Cameron will rubber stamp an embarrassing U-turn over the Government's £5.2bn super aircraft carrier programme this week to avoid "a floating white elephant".
Steve Richards: Now we see this industry has oversold itself
Wednesday 07 December 2011
Cabinet ministers are human beings. They know people. They have friends and former colleagues who are sometimes also friends. Some of their friends and former colleagues become lobbyists. Their closeness to ministers is the reason they secure lucrative jobs.
Philip Hensher: Werritty had a priceless commodity that others could mine– he had Access
Saturday 15 October 2011
Towards the end of a lifetime of networking, someone asked that glacial charlatan-genius Andy Warhol if there were anyone left he still had a desire to meet.
Liam Fox backs Nadine Dorries over plan to cut number of abortions
Monday 05 September 2011
The Defence Minister, Liam Fox, has thrown his weight behind a bid to change the law on counselling for women considering a termination, saying yesterday he would support efforts to reduce the "far too high" number of abortions.
Gurkhas to get lower payoffs in Army cuts
Friday 02 September 2011
One officer facing compulsory redundancy said: 'I have given my whole life to the Army. I feel helpless. There is no morale in the brigade, it is very, very bad'
14 new Chinook helicopters for the RAF
Monday 22 August 2011
The Royal Air Force will receive 14 new Chinook helicopters in a £1 billion contract, the Ministry of Defence announced today.
Video: Fox: 'Debt is a strategic issue'
Wednesday 03 August 2011
Defence Secretary Liam Fox says Britain will not be able to protect itself in the future if the budget deficit is not cleared now.
Armed forces will be unable to cope after budget cuts, say MPs
Wednesday 03 August 2011
The MPs have rejected Mr Cameron's contention that the armed forces could cope with a 'full spectrum' of operations
Union attacks MoD civilian job cuts
Friday 29 July 2011
Union leaders today attacked plans by the Ministry of Defence to cut a further 7,000 civilian posts as "shameful".
Leading article: Indefensible briefings
Thursday 28 July 2011
One of the most striking revelations in the records released earlier this week of meetings between Government ministers and News International executives was that the Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox, apparently gave Rupert and James Murdoch confidential briefings on Afghanistan. In extracting information directly from the Defence Secretary, the Murdoch family appears to have taken its Fox News brand rather literally.
Defence Secretary wants reserve soldiers 'build-up'
Sunday 17 July 2011
Defence Secretary Liam Fox has pledged a "build-up" of reserve soldiers which could see a reduction in the size of the regular Army.
Liam Fox apologises over cleared pilots
Wednesday 13 July 2011
Defence Secretary Liam Fox apologised today to the families of the pilots in the Mull of Kintyre helicopter crash after a new report cleared them of an earlier finding of negligence.
MoD loses track of £6bn worth of equipment
Tuesday 05 July 2011
The Ministry of Defence has been urged by MPs to get a grip of stock control problems which have left it unable to account for billions of pounds-worth of military equipment.
Simon Carr: Defence reform is more fog of war than clarity of purpose
Tuesday 28 June 2011
Sketch: The MoD would be fourth in the FTSE if it were a private company
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